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TIL Sir Henry Irving was the first actor to receive a knighthood — also, his larger-than-life attitude was so frightening his assistant, Bram Stoker, based the character Count Dracula on him

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b9WW0 TIL Towards the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. started to reconsider his fight for Integration and even said "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house"
NXb8 TIL that giraffes can go longer without water than camels.
ymQp TIL that Olympians are now allowed a modest amount of THC in blood tests. In May 2013, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) raised the in-competition threshold for marijuana tenfold, to 150 ng/ml, meaning that an athlete would have to be a “pretty dedicated cannabis consumer” to test positive.
0dRA TIL Baseball Player Richie Ashburn fouled off a ball and hit a spectator, a few minutes later he fouled off another ball and hit the same spectator while she was being carried off by stretcher
9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”